Buck Creek School
Appearance
Buck Creek School | |
Nearest city | Perry, Kansas |
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Coordinates | 39°4′4″N 95°17′41″W / 39.06778°N 95.29472°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | c.1878 |
Architectural style | Italianate |
NRHP reference No. | 88002830[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 27, 1988 |
Buck Creek School is a historic school in Perry, Kansas.
It was built in about 1878, closed in 1952 and added to the National Register in 1988.
It is a 25 by 40 feet (7.6 m × 12.2 m) plan building with limestone blocks forming its west, south, and east walls, and limestone rubble forming its north wall.[2]
During the opening credits of the television movie The Day After, the school can be seen with both exterior and interior shots.
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Martha Hagedorn-Krass (November 7, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Buck Creek School". National Park Service. Retrieved October 14, 2017. With 11 photos from 1998.
Categories:
- Defunct schools in Kansas
- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
- Italianate architecture in Kansas
- School buildings completed in 1878
- Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Kansas
- National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Kansas
- 1878 establishments in Kansas
- Kansas Registered Historic Place stubs